New Delhi: Congress refuses to see beyond the Gandhis even after the party was decimated in the recently fought assembly polls in five states, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said on Tuesday, when Sonia Gandhi accused the ruling dispensations of making “divisive and polarising politics” the new norm. “The entire family has tried their best in the recent elections but failed to open the account in many places, because Congress does not see beyond the Gandhi family,” Thakur told the reporters here after the BJP parliamentary party meeting in New Delhi. Attacking Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, who was election in-charge in Uttar Pradesh, Thakur said, under her leadership the party managed to win only two seats and many of their leaders even had their security money forfeited, the loss was so “humiliating”. “Rahul Gandhi also too took charge in West Bengal. And there too, the party did not even open an account,” the minister said referring to the 2021 assembly polls in the eastern state, when the BJP still made some advances, but fell short as the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress was reelected. Thakur said, despite all these facts, it remained to be seen: “Will the party continue to stick to the one and only family. “Unless the Congress resolves this Gandhi-family issue, the crisis in the party will remain as it is,” he said. Earlier, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi attacked the BJP for doing divisive politics and slammed the government for targeting the opposition and spreading maximum fear and intimidation. In the recently concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh, Congress lost its security deposit in 387 of the 399 seats. The party won just two seats although it had fought nearly all the seats. As far as vote share goes, the Congress got just 2.4 per cent of total votes, that was lower than the Jayant Chaudhary-led Rashtriya Lok Dal, which fought on only 32 seats, and yet managed 2.9 per cent vote share. UNI JA ING
